Leonardo DiCaprio to reboot WarGames?

Besides its notability as the year that your correspondent was born, 1983 is also known for bringing about Matthew Broderick's career with WarGames, a film about an innocent, young computer hacker (Broderick) who plays with the computer in charge of America's nuclear arsenal and inadvertently starts the countdown to World War III. This is all resolved with a friendly game of tic-tac-toe, an infinite number of computed stalemates, and the message that you can't hug your children with nuclear arms. Now its rumored that Leonardo Dicapprio wants to remake the sci-fi flick.

In the summer of 2008, MGM released a straight-to-DVD "sequel" entitled War Games: The Dead Code that had more action than the original, but also practically had "straight to DVD" scrawled on the cover.

At this point, it's still just a rumor that DiCaprio will reboot the movie, though other 25th anniversary reboots have been successful at the box office this year. DiCaprio's busy current production schedule would make it seem unlikely that the star will have any time for tic-tac-toe himself, though he may produce it via his production company Appian Way.